Risker writes: > To the best of my knowledge, the Elections Committee has had no involvement in the MCDC election, > and there's no indication at all that the Board asked them to assist or to manage the election. > I would really like to see a couple of stewards acting as scrutineers for this election, simply because they are > really experienced at identifying the kinds of problems that turn up on elections like this
I do hope there are scrutineers of that sort. Can someone involved w/ the process advise on how that is happening? I'd like to see us have an explicit standing group that keeps up with all of these large-scale selection processes, shares best practices from a range of variations implemented on different projects, and can discuss them publicly in a number of languages. Running polls + votes is broadly useful, so we should expand the pool of people fluent in their implementation. It is good to have staff support and complement this work, but it would be a loss five times over (in cost, delay, warmth, capacity, communal knowledge) to remove this work from active community maintenance and oversight. On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 4:28 AM Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Agreed. Is this something that the Election Committee >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee>, >> as a standing committee not tied to a single election, can help with? SJ >> >> > I would like the answer to this to be 'yes', but the Elections Committee > doesn't seem to do anything except supervise the community elections to the > Board (which are, in effect, now run by WMF staff). They did not, for > instance, appear to be particularly involved in the work that led to the > changes to the Board election structure. They do not publish any > information about what they are doing, and they don't appear to be > particularly responsive to inquiries even when there is a Board election > on. Making the elections committee a 'standing' committee does not appear > to have resulted in anything changing, and suggests this committee is not > the right group to take any further changes forward. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/LIVTHULOCCB5Z5ILGJUUEHSHPKEPEOPO/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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